Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Administrator's Companion

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Administrator's Companion The comprehensive guide to planning, deployment, and everyday maintenance-straight from the experts. Get your mission-critical systems up and running quickly-and maximize your organization's productivity-with the essential guide to installing, configuring, and managing the Windows Server 2003 family. This comprehensive administrator's reference details operating system features and capabilities and provides easy-to-follow procedures, practical workarounds, and key troubleshooting tactics for everyday, on-the-job results. You also get expert insights for using the improvements in system and network security features, network capabilities, and Active Directory services-must-know details for protecting and optimizing your technology investment. Topics covered include: * Deployment planning: Create a deployment road map. Plan directory services structure, domains, and namespaces. * New installations: Configure network settings, file and print services, Group Policy, Resultant Set of Policy, storage, and devices. Use Remote Installation Services. Troubleshoot setup. * Upgrading: Prepare Microsoft Windows NT 4-based domains and computers. Upgrade from Windows 2000 or Windows XP. * Network operations: Manage TCP/IP, Active Directory services, security features, interoperability, clustering, disk management, shadow copies, and other services. * Web services: Run and optimize Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0, Internet Security and Acceleration Server, Certificate Services, headless servers, and Web gardens. * Client services/support: Set up e-mail services. Deploy Terminal Services. Automate software management. Use new command-line tools and scripting to simplify routine administration. * System tuning and repair: Use monitoring tools, backups, automated recovery, fault tolerance, and avoidance. Tweak the Registry. Troubleshoot and recover services.Russel, Charlie is the author of 'Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Administrator's Companion' with ISBN 9780735613676 and ISBN 0735613672.